1. Select one of the three energy checks to begin:

2. Make sure there is no contraindication for using the arm, such as an injury or sprain.

1. What are five physical considerations you will attend to?  Review
    

2. What will you do with your eyes during the energy check?  Review
    

3. What signals will you use and ask the client to use during the energy check?  Review
    

4. What attitudes will you keep in your awareness?  Review
    

5. Vividly imagine a specific, unique client. Out loud, role-play what you will say to this person to introduce energy checking.  Review

Now put it all together. With a colleague role-playing the client, go through the preparation phase (physical considerations, signals, eye position, internal attitudes, words you use to introduce the client to the energy checking (or Review) and qualify an indicator muscle (or Review).

Begin with the psychological reversals you and your partner identified during Practice Session 1. Formulate the affirmations and experiment with the above energy interventions for resolving each of your partner’s PRs. Then instruct your partner on how to carry out the procedure for you. Enlist several other people to check for psychological reversals and correct any you identify.

With a colleague role-playing a client coming in with a specific problem or using an actual problem, go through each of the phases of the early part of treatment. The target problem could be a fear, phobia, anxiety, anger, lack of confidence, grief, worry, jealousy, guilt, shame, obsession, or any other undesired emotional response to a specific situation, thought, image, or memory. Please take care that the problems you target are appropriate given the context of your practice sessions. The treatment tasks to cover in this practice session are to:

Build rapport.

Gather information about the client’s background and treatment goals.

Explain and obtain informed consent about using an energy-based approach.

Establish a familiarity and some success with energy checking.

Check for and correct neurological disorganization.

Check for and resolve global psychological reversals.

Formulate an appropriate target problem.

Check for and resolve specific-context psychological reversals involved with the problem.

Access the problem, rate it, and "lock it" in.

You are now ready to begin the energy intervention phase that begins with the next module.

After this sequence, solicit feedback. Reverse roles.

Balance your own meridians by tapping the 12 points on the One-Point-per-Meridian Chart (for each point, tap during an inhalation and exhalation, pause during an inhalation and exhalation, tap again) and then hooking up the central and governing meridians.

Instruct a partner in balancing his or her meridians.

NOTE: The instructions for the practice session in the "Opening Phases" module are repeated below. If you have already done this with a partner, your partner is still available to continue working with you, and the work you did is still fresh, skip this practice session and jump to the subsequent practice session. You and your partner will, within this module, each do an entire session as therapist and an entire session as client.

With a colleague role-playing a client coming in with a specific problem (or using an actual problem), go through each of the phases of the early part of treatment. The target problem could be a fear, phobia, anxiety, anger, reactiveness, lack of confidence, grief, worry, jealousy, guilt, shame, obsessiveness, or any other undesired emotional response to a specific situation, thought, image, or memory. Please take a measure of the intensity of the problem and its appropriateness for these practice sessions. The treatment tasks to cover in this practice session include:

    After this sequence, solicit feedback. Switch roles.

Research is not available about which sequence is likely to be most effective. It would seem, however, that using all 14 points would be more potent for balancing the associated meridians and that the longer tapping sequence would be more effective in more situations.

On the other hand, this might be more intervention than is necessary, and a tremendous amount of anecdotal evidence suggests that simpler sequences are effective a good deal of the time. In one sense, it does not matter which set of points you use: If the sequence is not effective in bringing down the client’s distress level (SUD) while the problem state is activated, you would then move to the sequence taught in the Advanced Meridian Treatments module (following).

Plausibly, if you adopt the combination of number 3 and number 4 above, you will need to move to the advanced methods less frequently than if you adopt number1. In that sense, starting with the more complex sequence might ultimately lead to a less complex treatment. But it is truly dealer’s choice.

Select a treatment sequence that you will use for the remainder of this module and, with the problem state locked in, show your "client" how to stimulate the points. As soon as the SUD decreases, even slightly, it is often reassuring for clients to hear that they are responsive to this method. Even if the SUD moves down slowly, the fact that it is moving at all means the indications are good for obtaining the desired results by applying the technique persistently while remaining alert for any neurological disorganization, psychological reversals, or unresolved aspects of the problem. A small proportion of people, however, apparently do not respond to meridian tapping, and in these cases, other techniques may be employed, such as the Touch and Breathe method of meridian stimulation or working with other energy systems, such as the chakras or the radiant circuits.

It is better now to go through the remainder of the treatment sequence with one of you in the therapist role and the other in the client role. Switch roles at the end of the treatment session.

You can use any one of these bridging techniques between rounds of tapping. Most practitioners find a favorite and use it most of the time, introducing others as intuition dictates.

Choose one, review it, practice it, and show your "client" how to do it.

Variations:

You learned this technique as part of the 3-Part/3-Minute generic correction for neurological disorganization. It is also an excellent bridging technique.

Repeat the treatment point sequence exactly as you did in the first part of the sandwich.

When you have completed the sandwich (treatment point sequence, bridging procedure, treatment point sequence), again assess the intensity of the problem. Clients may be able to focus more easily on the problem if they close their eyes. Have them tune into the problem, bring the original problem or memory to mind, and give it a rating from 0 to 10 on the amount of distress it causes them now, as they think about it.

If no trace of the previous emotional intensity remains, then you are done with the sandwich and ready to move on to anchor the gains. If, on the other hand, the SUD goes down, lets say, to a 4, perform subsequent rounds until 0 is reached or until you can reduce the number no further.

Sometimes a problem will be resolved after a single round of treatment. More often, only partial relief is obtained and additional rounds are necessary.

Before returning to the next round of treatment, also be sure the problem is still "locked in" (indicator muscle goes weak during an "in the clear" energy check), particularly following periods of dialogue or intense emotion.

Simply accessing the problem may introduce subtle disruptions within the client’s neurological system. The bridging procedures done within each round tend to counteract this tendency, but they are not always enough. While it is not necessary to frequently test for neurological disorganization, stay alert for signs of confusion, jumbled words, or loss of mental acuity.

If these appear, consider introducing the 3-part/3-minute correction for neurological disorganization (Crown Pull, Connecting Heaven and Earth, Wayne Cook Posture). This will usually correct the problem for the purposes of treatment. If it does not, do the five tests described in the Neurological Disorganization module (all five require only one minute) and use the correction techniques shown there as appropriate.

Any of the procedures in the 5 Minute Energy Routine can also be introduced between rounds of treatment, as well as other exercises for keeping the energy system clear and flowing.

Psychological reversals may emerge at any point during the treatment, and when they do, they can inhibit further progress. Psychological reversals that emerge during treatment are called intervening psychological reversals

The check for an intervening psychological reversal might be worded something like, "I want to be completely over this problem" [or describe problem]. "Completely" is the element that distinguishes an intervening psychological reversal. Like other PRs, intervening PRs might also be organized around specific criteria. The wording to check for a criteria-related intervening PR, might be "I deserve to be completely over this problem" [or: "It is safe to . . ."; "It is safe for others if I . . ."; "It is possible for me to . . .", etc.].

• Do another round of the acupoint stimulation "sandwich"

• Check for any intermittent psychological reversals (e.g., "I want to be completely over this problem") and their variants based on specific criteria (e.g., "It is safe to be completely . . .," etc.).
   

• Resolve any that are found and return to the next round of the sandwich.
   

• If there were no PRs, check for neurological disorganization, correct if detected, and return to the next round of the sandwich.

• Explore whether another aspect of the problem requires attention before further progress can be made, and if so, shift the focus of treatment to that aspect.
   

• If the SUD is still above zero after doing one or more of these techniques, and you are quite certain that PRs, neurological disorganization, and other aspects of the problem are not interfering, do another round of the sandwich.

• Once this threshold has been reached, another bridging technique or the Eye Roll will often bring it all the way down.
   

• If the SUD is still above zero after doing one or more of these techniques, do another round of the "sandwich."

The additional steps presented in the "Closing Phases" module will:

• anchor in the new response
   
• project the positive state into the future
   
• fix the gains into the person’s life

After the SUD has reached 0 or near 0, you will complete the treatment in the first practice session of the Closing Phases module. If you are already at or near 0, you may wish to jump directly to the Closing Phases module now and return later to the next module, "Advanced Meridian Treatments."

Have your partner access and lock in a new problem state or the problem state used in the previous module if that problem has not been resolved.

Using the Meridian Assessment Chart, energy check each alarm point. When testing while a problem state is locked in, a strong indicator muscle means that the energy in the related meridian is disturbed.

Make a note of which meridians need treatment while the problem state is locked in. Switch roles.

If you are not working with the same partner, or if some time has passed, repeat Practice Session 1.

Then be sure the problem state is still locked in, or lock it in again. Next, identify the meridians that you noted as needing correction when you checked the alarm points in Practice Session I, and click the meridian name on the Alarm Point Chart (or on the Table of Meridian Treatment Charts) to locate the treatment chart for that meridian.

Treat each meridian using one of the points listed on the chart and re-check the alarm point. If the indicator muscle is weak (meaning that the treatment was effective), go on to check the next meridian. If the indicator muscle remains strong during the alarm point check (meaning this meridian still requires treatment), stimulate another point from the chart for that meridian.

1. Using the alarm points as before, find a meridian that needs treatment when the problem state is locked in.
    

2. Formulate an affirmation or self-suggestion based on the information provided on that meridian’s Treatment Chart.
    

3. Have the "client" state this affirmation while stimulating one of the treatment points.
    

4. Recheck the meridian using the alarm points.

Experiment with different meridians. Change roles.

With your partner, review and discuss each treatment choice point that depends upon one of the periodic SUD ratings.

With your partner, go through a complete session, from 1) the opening phases, to 2) assessing the acupoints needing treatment, to 3) moving through the various choice points based on the periodic SUD ratings for getting the SUD rating down to 0, to 4) providing the client with a copy of the Meridian Treatment Checklist. You might also want to keep the Opening Phases and the Meridian Intervention flow charts nearby.

When the SUD reaches 0 or near 0, you will complete the treatment in the "Closing Phases" module. Considerations if the SUD cannot be brought down to 0 or near 0 are addressed later in this module.

With your partner, switch between the client and therapist roles.

Then, with your partner, review your work in Practice Session 5 of the previous module (a complete treatment sequence that brings the SUD of a target problem down to 0 or near 0). Continue experimenting with the three anchoring techniques in relationship to the problem that has now been neutralized. Switch with your partner between the client and therapist roles.

Working now with the original problem, whose SUD level is now down to 0, and having anchored in that SUD level in Practice Session 1, with your partner, go through the steps of the outcome projection procedure. Each be in both the client and the therapist role.

1. Discuss with your partner the possibility of setbacks.
    

2. Formulate back-home assignments and clearly agree about how they will be implemented.
    

3. Experiment with the Temporal Tap.
    

4. Work out with your partner the ways you will be available to one another to support each other’s ongoing progress.

This would also be a good point to read the paper entitled, Five Keys to Successful Energy Psychology Treatment, written for Energy Psychology Interactive by psychologists David Grudermeyer and Rebecca Grudermeyer. They are two of the founders of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, and the paper is based on their involvement with the leaders and innovators within energy psychology as well as their years of clinical experience.

1. After appropriate preliminaries, access and "lock in" a problem state.
    

2. Rate the amount of distress it causes (SUD and MUD ratings).
    

3. Address neurological disorganization.
    

4. Correct psychological reversals before and during the treatment sequence.
    

5. Shift the energies related to the problem state using appropriate energy treatments.
    

6. Introduce additional procedures to lower the SUD level (e.g. 9 Gamut, Blow-Out/Zip-Up/Hook-In, Eye Roll), anchor it in when it has reached zero, and bridge the gains into back home situations.

Alternatively, choose a new problem area and conduct a session using the protocols you have learned in this program, this time, however, working with the chakras rather than the meridians.

At the end of the session, solicit feedback from your partner and then reverse roles.

• Crown Pull
   
• Blow-Out/Zip-Up/Hook-In
   
• Triple Warmer/Spleen Hug.
   
• Dancing to the Eights

Teach them to another.

• Stretch and Bounce
   
• Butt in the Air
   
• Ab Stretch
   
• Toweling Off
   
• Radiant Imagination
   
• Heaven Rushing In

Teach them to another.

Alternatively, choose a new problem area and conduct a session using the protocols you have learned in this program, this time, however, working with the radiant circuits rather than the meridians or chakras.

At the end of the session, solicit feedback from your partner and then reverse roles.

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